Legal authorities gain when they receive deference and cooperation from the public.
Considerable evidence suggests that the key factor shaping public behavior is the fairness …

This study explores two issues about police legitimacy. The first issue is the relative
importance of police legitimacy in shaping public support of the police and policing activities …

Discussions of public trust and confidence in the police and the courts often assume that the
key to public feelings is the public's evaluation of the outcomes that the public receives from …

This paper examines procedural justice in the context of citizen experiences with the police
and courts. It is based on interviews of 652 citizens with recent personal experiences …

The topic of legitimacy is of great theoretical and practical importance within the field of
criminal justice, but it remains under-studied by criminologists and socio-legal scholars …

This article makes three points. First, the police need public support and cooperation to be
effective in their order-maintenance role, and they particularly benefit when they have the …

This article reviews the evidence on whether procedurally just treatment of citizens by
agents of the criminal justice system, usually the police, has the effect of increasing the …

T he legal system is increasingly recognizing the importance of legitimacy to the
effectiveness of law (Tyler, 2006a, 2006b). Legitimacy is the widespread belief among …

Like the education system, the criminal justice system offers both formal, overt curricula-
found in the Bill of Rights, and informal or" hidden" curricula--embodied in how people are …

This paper summarizes 'procedural justice'approaches to policing, contrasting these to the
more politically dominant discourse about policing as crime control. It argues that public trust …